"The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity."

-- Abram L. Sachar

#Goal Quotes #Serenity Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other people are going to have questions about it, but we've got a big season coming up.”
“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”
“The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.”
“You know the typical crowd, Wow, itâ€™s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because thereâ€™s nothing out there. Itâ€™s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. Iâ€™ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. Thatâ€™s all. Sorry for all the millions, but Iâ€™ve never been lonely. I like myself. Iâ€™m the best form of entertainment I have.”
“My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.”
“I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children.”
“Vote like your nation's survival depends on it... because it does.”
“I'm about being the best.”

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